{"id":345804,"date":"2026-07-20T09:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345804\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:52:25","slug":"astros-host-miami-marlins-look-to-end-home-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/345804\/","title":{"rendered":"Astros host Miami Marlins, look to end home losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Marlins<\/a> (52-48, third in the NL East) vs. Houston Astros<\/a> (47-54, third in the AL West)<\/p>\n

Houston; Monday, 8:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Marlins: Janson Junk (4-5, 4.57 ERA, 1.31 WHIP, 48 strikeouts); Astros: Ronel Blanco<\/a> (0-0)<\/p>\n

LINE: Astros -137, Marlins +113; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Houston Astros take on the Miami Marlins looking to stop their three-game home skid.<\/p>\n

Houston has a 23-27 record in home games and a 47-54 record overall. The Astros have hit 134 total home runs to rank second in the AL.<\/p>\n

Miami has a 21-28 record on the road and a 52-48 record overall. The Marlins have a 20-5 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Monday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Yordan Alvarez<\/a> leads the Astros with 31 home runs while slugging .633. Jose Altuve<\/a> is 10 for 42 with four home runs and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Liam Hicks<\/a> leads the Marlins with 13 home runs while slugging .448. Otto Lopez<\/a> is 13 for 41 with four doubles, a triple, two home runs and nine RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Astros: 3-7, .238 batting average, 4.50 ERA, outscored by seven runs<\/p>\n

Marlins: 4-6, .256 batting average, 3.73 ERA, outscored by four runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Astros: Christian Walker: day-to-day (hip), Jeremy Pena<\/a>: day-to-day (hamstring), Ronel Blanco: 60-Day IL (elbow), Bennett Sousa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Brice Matthews: 10-Day IL (knee), Mike Burrows<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Correa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ankle), Brandon Walter<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Hayden Wesneski<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Marlins: Otto Lopez: day-to-day (hand), Robby Snelling: 60-Day IL (elbow), Anthony Bender<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shin), Michael Petersen<\/a>: day-to-day (hamstring), William Kempner<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), John King: 15-Day IL (ankle), Owen Caissie<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Josh Ekness: 60-Day IL (calf), Andrew Nardi<\/a>: 60-Day IL (ribs), Ronny Henriquez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Adam Mazur<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Marlins (52-48, third in the NL East) vs. Houston Astros (47-54, third in the AL West) Houston;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[125504,96127,118466,141654,124627,83012,70652,141655,12194,141657,141653,96271,9004,123,125,3822,124,141656,48414,97710,56034,141651,125503,71515,141652],"class_list":["post-345804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-adam-mazur","tag-andrew-nardi","tag-anthony-bender","tag-bennett-sousa","tag-brandon-walter","tag-carlos-correa","tag-event_preview","tag-hayden-wesneski","tag-houston-astros","tag-jeremy-pena","tag-jose-altuve","tag-liam-hicks","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-marlins","tag-miami-news","tag-michael-petersen","tag-mike-burrows","tag-otto-lopez","tag-owen-caissie","tag-ronel-blanco","tag-ronny-henriquez","tag-william-kempner","tag-yordan-alvarez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}